Specialty Gardening: Problem area;shade alt/w midday sun, 1 by LouC

LouC wrote:
Texas Gardening: Epsom Salts Well, I don't know how to do a link.

This thread discusses ES from top to bottom.

Also go to http://WWW.epsomsalts.org

I, too, have hard clay soil and this is the first rain that made any difference in 5 years. The lakes have been dried to the point of unbelief. For sometime all of the Dallas/Ft. Worth area has been on water rationing. Mean to say as the kids phrase "we feel your pain". For my totally shaded front bed I have amended it thoroughly with the MG garden soil. Expensive initially but worth it. I have very large elephant ear and medium size. This last two weeks have filled in with Everlasting Hydrangea. Also planted one banana this year. The elephant ears have flourished even in a drought. Some got so large they have been divided in 3-4 more each. Once they are established they are great. They die down completely after first frost but come right back in the spring. My, my I'm just as windy today as I was yesterday.